Marble rolling toy



Dec. 27, 1949 A. H. STROHM 2,492,399

MARBLE ROLLING TOY Filed May 11, 1946 INVENTOR ALBERT H.STROHM TTORNEYS Patented Dec. 27, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MARBLE ROLLING TOY Albert H. Strohm, Racine, Wis.

Application May 11, 1946, Serial No. 669,083

1 Claim. 1

My invention refers to a simple and amusing marble toy, and it has for its object to provide a pair of groove track members, converging at their rear ends and supported by a webbed encasing bracket having a switching tongue, with the webs spread apart, at their lower ends, to form a wide supporting leg. The front ends of said track members are supported by a bowed leg secured to said front end.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, substantially as hereinafter described, and more particularly defined by the appended claims, it being understood that such changes in the precise embodiment of the herein disclosed invention may be made as come within the scope of the claim.

In the accompanying drawings is illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of the present invention constructed according to the best mode so far devised for the practical application of the principles thereof.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a marble toy, embodying the features of my invention, the same being partly in section as indicated by line il of Figure 2.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same, partly broken away to more clearly illustrate structural features.

Figure 3 is a rear end view of the toy, illustrating the webbed supporting bracket thereof, and

Figure 4 is a cross section of the same, the section being indicated by line i4 of Figure 1.

Referring by characters to the drawing l indicates an upper downwardly inclined grooved track, and 2 a similar track inclined in the opposite direction.

The front ends of the track are supported by a bowed leg 3, which leg straddles the tracks and is secured thereto by rivets 3. The rear converging ends of the tracks are nested within flanges 4, of a one-piece bracket. The bracket flanges 4 are connected by a back web 5, and the lower ends of the flanges are spread apart to form a substantially wide leg support.

The nested ends of the track members are secured to the bracket flanges by rivets 4'-4', and the upper end of said bracket is slanted slightly forward above the top track, to form a deflecting hood for a marble A, it being understood that a number of such marbles are used to play the game.

The back web 5 of the bracket support, is cut away adjacent the end of the lower track and the cut away portion is folded inwardly to form an angular tongue 6, which tongue terminates above the lower track end.

From the foregoing description it is obvious that parties, with a handful of marbles, may drop the same, one at a time, upon the front end of the upper track, and said marbles, by gravity, will discharge into the bracket and by deflection, and gravity the marbles will drop down upon the tongue 6, whereby they will be guided into the lower track and by gravity will travel to the front end of it, where they may be collected in suitable containers as indicated in dotted lines, Figure 1.

It should be noted the lower rail 2 abuts the bracket web 5 and is secured by two rivets 4'. By the three attachments the entire apparatus is held rigid.

I claim:

A marble game comprising a pair of oppositely inclined grooved tracks. a one piece metallic bowed front support through which the flared ends of the tracks extend, the side stretches of the support being flared at their ends to form ground legs, a one piece metallic rear support for said tracks, the same including a back web hav- 7 ing inturned flanges encasing the converging ends of the tracks, the bottom end of the back web and flanges of said rear support being flared to form a ground leg, a rectangular cut away opening in the back web of the rear support, the cut away metal being bent inward to form a deflecting guide tongue for a marble over the end of a lower track, and rivets extending through the side stretches of the front support and tracks and through the flanges of the rear support and said track ends, whereby the parts of the structure are secured together and the stretches of the front support are reinforced together with the flanges of the rear support.

ALBERT H. STROHM.

REFERENCES CITED FOREIGN PATENTS Country Date France July 2, 1904 Number 

